Cardiff manager Omer Riza:
"Frustrated for the players, they have worked really hard again and deserved to take three points, but if you don't do enough you give teams the opportunity to get back in the game.
"The last four games we should have got eight points more in the league and it would have taken us to 13th, 14th, but it's shoulda, woulda, coulda.
"We need to control the game a little bit more when we are in front. We need to kill the energy and kill the momentum and we are not quite doing that at the moment."
Watford manager Tom Cleverley:
"We are mentally strong at the end of games, but the question is are we saving ourselves at the start of games?
"I know how good we are in the last 10 minutes of game. We have a good fighting spirit and I never thought the game was lost.
"The first half was poor and that's not how I want my players to play. That was my fault because I set them up to be solid."